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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Egypt in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Egypt
These restaurants serve modern Egyptian cuisine, contemporary Japanese cooking and kushiyaki. Khufus offers set menu and prix fixe formats, while Sachi Cairo offers vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options.
Khufus in Al Haram, Giza, serves modern Egyptian cuisine in set menu and prix fixe formats. For 2026 it is #1 on World’s 50 Best MENA, and The Best Chef gives it a Two Knives award for 2025. It sits inside the Giza Pyramid Complex, with views of the Giza Pyramids.
Kazoku in New Cairo City serves contemporary Japanese cooking with Asian fusion touches. It has a wine list, with a la carte and small plates service. Chef Reif Othman blends Japanese techniques with Middle Eastern influences.
Reif Kushiyaki Cairo in New Cairo is the first outpost of the Dubai-born kushiyaki format, with small plates and a la carte service and a sake programme. The restaurant sits in the By The Waterway development. World’s 50 Best MENA places it at #20 for 2026, with an earlier entry in 2025.
Sachi Cairo in Park St serves modern Japanese fusion in a la carte, small plates, and set menu formats. The kitchen focuses on a tasting menu, with vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options, and it pours a list of regional wines and arak. World’s 50 Best MENA places it at #37 for 2026.
La Maison Bleue restaurant and Le Restaurant serve Egyptian and Mediterranean fine dining with wine lists. Bella Italian Restaurant serves an Italian and Mediterranean buffet, and Secret Society serves smash burgers.
Secret Society in Somabay serves American smash burgers inside Good Days Boutique Hotel. Its burger counter has a casual dining format in a relaxed resort setting, with a la carte service.
La Maison Bleue restaurant in El Gouna serves Mediterranean and Egyptian fine dining with a wine list and a la carte service. It holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2025. It occupies a private stretch of lagoon waterfront in El Gouna, and the table is adults-only.
Le Restaurant serves Egyptian-Mediterranean fine dining with a wine list and a la carte service. It holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2026. Chef Vincent Guillou uses local market produce and vegetables from the restaurant’s garden.
Bella Italian Restaurant serves a classic Italian and Mediterranean buffet at Ali Baba Palace Resort. The buffet menu changes on a fortnightly cycle. The restaurant has a live pasta station and a pizza oven.
Alexandria and the North Coast read as coastal dining zones, with sea-facing rooms, hotel bars, and a seasonal resort rhythm.
Byblos Restaurant in San Stefano serves Lebanese and Syrian fine dining with a wine list and a la carte service. The dining room overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and the kitchen serves mezze and grills.
Arabesque Lounge sits in San Stefano, Alexandria, and is one of two bars in our guide for that city. Classic cocktails are on the drinks list, with shisha and Egyptian snacks, and the room overlooks the infinity pool. The décor is inspired by tradition.
Axis in King Mariout is a hotel bar at Hilton Alexandria King's Ranch. It has a wine list, classic cocktails, and craft cocktails, and the wines are specially selected. The room is known for a relaxed atmosphere and luxurious food.
Blé in Marassi is a French pastry café with a la carte service. It is part of the seasonal beach-compound dining circuit, serving artisanal baking and coffee in a café setting with sea views.
Luxor accounts for 8 venues in our guide. Al Moudira Hotel and Khan Al Moudira are in West Bank, and Canopus Restaurant is a Nile dahabiya sailing between Luxor and Aswan.
Al Moudira Hotel in West Bank carries Michelin 2 Keys, a Relais Chateaux award, and a La Liste hotel score. The palace-style property has ornate rooms with domed ceilings, hand-laid tilework and hammam bathrooms.
Khan Al Moudira in West Bank is a traditional Egyptian and Lebanese café with a la carte service and a Relais Chateaux award. Inside Al Moudira, antiques furnish the room, which overlooks a courtyard with an Ottoman marble fountain. The kitchen uses seasonal produce from the hotel’s own farm.
Canopus Restaurant is a fine-dining Middle Eastern restaurant aboard a Nile dahabiya sailing between Luxor and Aswan, with set menu and a la carte formats and a wine list. The kitchen serves a generous Middle Eastern buffet with Mediterranean, Levantine, and Arabic influences, in a Luxor West Bank dining format. The restaurant holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2026.
Al Alamein Hotel in Sidi Abd El Rahman has Star Wine List recognition for 2026, while Sachi Cairo in Park St has a regional wine and arak list. Other programmes include Kazoku in New Cairo City, La Maison Bleue restaurant in El Gouna and Byblos Restaurant in San Stefano.
Egypt has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide across the cities covered, including Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria, Giza, El Gouna, Hurghada, Somabay, New Cairo, Sheikh Zayed City and Sharm El Sheikh.
Cairo has contemporary Japanese fine dining with wine lists at Kazoku in New Cairo City and Sachi Cairo in Park St. Kazoku offers a la carte and small plates service, while Sachi Cairo offers vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options alongside regional wines and arak.
Khufus in Al Haram serves set menu and prix fixe formats, while Sachi Cairo in Park St offers vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options. Sachi Cairo also serves a la carte and small plates. Canopus Restaurant offers set menu and a la carte formats aboard a Nile dahabiya.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Egypt
Selected entries from the current guide for Egypt.
Giza, Egypt
Within the Giza Pyramid Complex, Khufus makes a case for modern Egyptian cuisine as a serious fine-dining proposition. Chef Mostafa Seif's kitchen ranked fourth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and scored 78 points on La Liste 2026, placing it at the summit of Egypt's formal dining tier. The Pier 88 group property carries a 4.3 rating across more than 2,800 reviews.
Cairo, Egypt
Ranked 24th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Kazoku brings contemporary Japanese cooking to the Swan Lake compound in New Cairo, reached via a winding path through gardens and tennis courts.
New Cairo, Egypt
Cairo's first outpost of the Dubai-born kushiyaki format, Reif Kushiyaki in New Cairo ranked #47 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list for 2024. The format centres on Japanese skewer traditions adapted for a regional audience. It sits in New Cairo's By The Waterway development, at a remove from the city's older dining districts.
Cairo, Egypt
Sachi Cairo in Cairo delivers contemporary Mediterranean fine dining driven by seasonal Egyptian produce and a tasting-menu focus. Notable dishes include Seasonal Tasting Menu, Charred Local Fish, and Slow-Cooked Lamb Shoulder, each tempered with bright citrus, roasted vegetables and house-made sauces. The kitchen emphasizes live plating and precise technique, offering vegetarian and pescatarian tasting options alongside a regional wine and arak list. Recognized in World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 at #27, Sachi Cairo pairs confident flavors with warm service, textured plates, and crisp, mineral-driven wines for a striking, appetite-focused evening in Egypt's capital.
Cairo, Egypt
Ranked #21 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA list in 2024, Zooba in Zamalek has spent over a decade making the case for Egyptian street food as a serious dining category. The Zamalek branch sits on 26 July Street, where the menu's architecture around traditional ful, ta'meya, and koshary formats signals something more considered than casual fast food.
Cairo, Egypt
Brasserie Ayda sits in Sheraton Al Matar, a Cairo district shaped by airport traffic, residential blocks, and practical dining rather than postcard tourism. Read it through the city’s brasserie habit: informal meals, cross-cultural menus, and a room that matters as much for pace and convenience as for ceremony.
Luxor, Egypt
Canopus Restaurant brings Luxor’s West Bank dining into a generous Middle Eastern buffet format, with Mediterranean, Levantine and Arabic influences carried through hummus, kebab, kofta, shawarma and ful medames. Chef Hussein Gaber’s kitchen is strongest when read as a local-terroir proposition: nearby farms feed a menu built around familiar regional forms rather than imported luxury signals.
Luxor, Egypt
In an enchanting setting, Al Moudira restaurant focuses on the richness of Eastern and Mediterranean flavors, with forays into Asia and South America. Embark on a creative and refined menu progression that celebrates seasonal produce from the hotel's own farm, a distinctive sustainable project in Egypt.
El Gouna, Egypt
La Maison Bleue occupies a private stretch of El Gouna's lagoon waterfront, delivering an adults-only Egyptian Mediterranean table with a focus on the olive-oil-driven coastal cooking shared between Egypt's northern shores and the wider Mediterranean basin. it operates in El Gouna's smaller, more design-led dining tier, intimate in scale, specific in culinary intent.
El Gouna, Egypt
Le Restaurant reads El Gouna through a French-trained lens without turning the Red Sea resort into a theme. Chef Vincent Guillou’s two decades in Egypt matter here: local market produce and the restaurant’s vegetable garden shape a cooking-classics format that feels better suited to a composed evening than a quick resort meal.
Giza, Egypt
Ranked 40th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Sachi Giza has established itself as among the more closely watched dining addresses in the Egyptian capital region.
Cairo, Egypt
Positioned on the Nile Corniche at Qasr El Nil, 8 Restaurant occupies one of Cairo's most recognisable riverside addresses. The setting places it inside a narrow tier of Cairene dining rooms where the view is as deliberate as the menu, and where the pace of a meal is shaped as much by the water outside as by what arrives at the table. For visitors orienting themselves within Cairo's upper dining register, this is a useful reference point.
Cairo, Egypt
Abou Shakra is one of Cairo's most enduring addresses for traditional Egyptian grilled meats, operating across multiple locations in the city for decades. The kitchen draws on long-established sourcing relationships and preparation methods that predate the city's modern restaurant boom. For visitors tracing Cairo's grilling tradition back to its roots, this is a foundational reference point.
Al Haram, Egypt
One of Egypt's most enduring addresses for traditional grilled meats, Abou Shakra sits on Abou El Houl Square in Al Haram, steps from the Giza Plateau. The restaurant has served successive generations of Cairenes and visitors since the mid-twentieth century, occupying a position in Egyptian dining that sits between everyday institution and cultural landmark. Its longevity is its most credible credential.
Nasr, Egypt
Al Khal Egyptian Restaurant operates in the home-cooking tradition of Heliopolis, one of Cairo's long-established residential districts. Located in Masaken Al Mohandesin, it addresses the neighbourhood appetite for grounded Egyptian staples: the slow-cooked legume dishes, braised meats, and grain preparations that define everyday Cairene eating. For visitors wanting to eat the way locals do rather than through a tourist-facing interpretation, this is the relevant category.
Sheikh Zayed City, Egypt
Andrea El Mariouteya sits along New Giza Road in Sheikh Zayed City, drawing on the Egyptian tradition of farm-sourced, open-air dining that defines the Mariouteya canal corridor. The restaurant belongs to a category of Egyptian dining rooms where ingredients are the argument, not the spectacle, whole birds, fresh river fish, and garden produce arriving with little distance from source to table. For those approaching from central Cairo, it represents a deliberate shift in pace and format.
Cairo, Egypt
Aura sits on Cairo’s Nile-facing Giza side, a useful lens on how the city’s dining scene balances hotel polish, riverfront ritual, and ingredient-led cooking. With no public awards or price band attached, the smarter reading is contextual: judge it against Cairo rooms built around setting, sourcing, and occasion rather than trophy-led tasting-menu culture.
Sidi Abd El Rahman, Egypt
B'HAAR belongs to the Marassi side of Sidi Abd El Rahman, where North Coast dining is shaped by summer traffic, beach-club rhythms, and the Mediterranean pantry rather than old-city formality. Treat it as part of a resort-town restaurant circuit: useful when the brief is coastal, ingredient-led dining without the ceremony of Cairo’s hotel dining rooms.
Cairo, Egypt
Bab El Nil belongs to Cairo’s Nile-side dining circuit, where the riverfront setting matters as much as the plate. The useful way to read it is through Cairo’s ingredient culture: river fish, Delta vegetables, grilled meats, breads, pickles, herbs, and the long exchange between hotel dining, local restaurants, and celebratory Egyptian tables.
Cairo, Egypt
Bab El-Sharq sits on Cairo’s Nile Corniche in Qasr El Nil, a setting that places it inside the city’s hotel-side dining circuit rather than the neighbourhood grill-house tradition. Read it through ingredients and setting: Egyptian cooking here is shaped by river-city expectations, shared plates, grilled meats, breads, herbs, and the social pace of a capital that treats dinner as a long evening, not a quick stop.
Sidi Abd El Rahman, Egypt
Bay. Root sits inside Sidi Abd El Rahman’s Marassi dining circuit, where the North Coast’s seasonal audience has pushed restaurants toward sharper sourcing, lighter formats, and menus built for long, social meals. Treat it as part of the resort-town conversation rather than a standalone destination: the interest is how coastal Egypt is learning to dine with more produce, seafood, and tempo awareness.
Hurghada, Egypt
Bella Italian Restaurant sits in Hurghada’s resort-dining circuit, where Italian cooking has to reconcile imported pantry staples with the Red Sea’s produce, climate, and holiday pacing. The draw is less about trophy recognition than category fit: a European comfort-food option in a city better known for seafood rooms, beach clubs, and hotel-led dining.
Cairo, Egypt
Beymen Café belongs to Cairo’s polished café-dining tier, where the point is less ceremony than a controlled pause between shopping, hotel lobbies, and the Nile-side rhythm of central Cairo. With no public awards or chef-led tasting format attached, its appeal sits in mood, location, and the city’s growing appetite for international café culture shaped by local produce and daily social ritual.
Cairo, Egypt
Birdcage occupies the Semiramis InterContinental on Cairo's Corniche El Nile, placing it at one of the city's most recognisable hotel dining addresses. The setting frames the Nile directly, making it a reference point for visitors and residents who want geography to do some of the work. It sits within a broader cohort of Cairo hotel restaurants where international infrastructure meets a local dining public with increasingly specific expectations.
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Luxor, Egypt
On the quiet west bank of the Nile, Al Moudira Hotel occupies a category of its own among Luxor properties: a purpose-built oriental palace of 54 ornate rooms, domed ceilings, hand-laid tilework, and hammam bathrooms, positioned closer to the Valley of the Kings than to the east bank crowds. Rated 94.5 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels list, with rates from US$319 per night, it rewards travellers who want proximity to the temples without sacrificing architectural theatre.
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Egypt's 2025 World Travel Awards winner for Leading Luxury Resort, the Four Seasons Sharm El Sheikh occupies the upper tier of the Red Sea mega-resort market. Rates from $340 per night.
El Gouna, Egypt
La Maison Bleue occupies a particular niche in El Gouna's accommodation tier: a 13-suite adults-only property where Minoan murals, Syrian arches, and Venetian tiling coexist under a pastel-blue facade.
Cairo, Egypt
Rising 36 stories above the Nile Corniche in Bulaq, The St. Regis Cairo occupies one of the Egyptian capital's most commanding positions. With 362 rooms, suites, and serviced apartments dressed in Egyptian design detail, and a La Liste score of 95.5 points for 2026, it sits firmly within Cairo's upper tier of international luxury hotels. Four restaurants, a two-floor spa, and the brand's butler service complete the proposition.
Giza, Egypt
A Leading Hotels of the World member set in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza Palace Hotel & Spa operates at a scale that few Egyptian properties match: 560 rooms, colonnaded architecture, and a culinary program steered by Chef Sergi Arola. At rates from $441 per night, it occupies a tier where conference infrastructure and leisure amenity sit alongside genuine design ambition.
Cairo, Egypt
Set inside 'La Viennoise,' a late 1800s building on Mahmoud Bassiouny Street in Downtown Cairo, Mazeej Balad Boutique Hotel offers five individually conceived suites, each built around a named fictional character drawn from the city's social history. Pricing is available on request. For travellers seeking a small-scale, character-driven property in the middle of Cairo's historic core, this is a rare option in a district better known for administrative buildings than boutique hospitality.
Cairo, Egypt
Dusit Thani LakeView Cairo occupies a address in New Cairo's El-Tessen district, operating 203 rooms under the Dusit Thani flag. The property sits within Cairo's expanding new-city hotel corridor, where international brands have staked ground to serve the business and residential communities shifting east from the historic centre. Rates and dining details are best confirmed directly with the hotel.
Cairo, Egypt
Anchored on the Nile Corniche inside the twin-tower Nile City complex, Fairmont Nile City is a 542-room property where Art Deco interiors meet a multi-outlet dining program and Cairo's highest swimming pool. Fairmont Gold floors add a personalised service tier, while Bab El Nil's midnight crowds and the 25th-floor Sky Pool signal how seriously the hotel takes its public-facing programming.
Cairo, Egypt
On the Corniche, directly facing the Nile, Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza positions guests at one of the city's most strategically useful addresses: five minutes from downtown, within reach of the pyramids, and anchored by ten dining venues spanning Egyptian, Lebanese, Chinese, Italian, and Mediterranean kitchens. At around $490 per night for 365 rooms, it competes at the summit of Cairo's riverside luxury tier.
Alexandria, Egypt
The Four Seasons at San Stefano occupies one of Alexandria's most architecturally assertive addresses, designed by the firm behind Toronto's CN Tower, with 118 rooms against a facility base that includes three pool configurations, ten restaurants and lounges, and private Mediterranean beach access via underground tunnel. It is the city's clearest argument for placing Alexandria on the same itinerary as Cairo's more established luxury hotel market. Rates from approximately $305 per night.
Sidi Abd El Rahman, Egypt
Al Alamein Hotel sits within the Marassi development at Kilo 129 on Egypt's North Coast, recognised by Star Wine List (2026) and awarded both Regional Winner for Luxury Destination Hotel and Country Winner for Luxury Beachfront Resort. The property positions Mediterranean beachfront access alongside a wine programme that ranks it among Egypt's more seriously curated resort addresses.
Cairo, Egypt
On the west bank of the Nile at Giza, Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence was the brand's first Egyptian property and remains among the city's most spaciously appointed addresses. With 262 rooms starting at 452 square feet, Nile-facing dining across several formats, and a spa complex designed for extended stays, it operates at a different scale and pace than Cairo's newer high-rises.
El Gouna, Egypt
The Chedi El Gouna is a Leading Hotels of the World member set within Egypt's purpose-built Red Sea resort town, where lagoon-facing architecture and a considered dining programme position it at the quieter, design-conscious end of the Egyptian Red Sea market.
Hurghada, Egypt
The Oberoi Beach Resort, Sahl Hasheesh occupies a quieter stretch of the Red Sea coastline south of Hurghada, where the Oberoi group's service culture translates into one of Egypt's most consistently recognized resort stays. Rated 92 points by La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 and ranked 12th among Condé Nast's Best Resorts in 2025, it sits in a narrow tier of Egyptian properties that earn international editorial attention rather than simply regional prominence.
Luxor, Egypt
A dahabeya voyage on the Nile sits at a different point in Egypt's luxury travel hierarchy than a five-star hotel or a large cruise ship. Storia the Dahabeya offers a slower, sail-powered passage through Upper Egypt's temple corridor, with Luxor's monuments visible from the water, a format that prioritises access to the river and the ruins over urban convenience.
Hurghada, Egypt
Serry Beach Resort occupies the Touristic Villages strip of Hurghada's Red Sea coast with 453 rooms across a large-scale beach compound. The property sits in the volume-resort tier that defines much of Hurghada's accommodation offer, trading on direct beach access and extensive on-site facilities. Travelers comparing it against Hurghada's smaller, design-led alternatives should read the room count as a signal of its format.
North Coast, Egypt
On Egypt's North Coast, Address Marassi Golf Resort brings a Mediterranean design vocabulary to a stretch of coastline most international travellers overlook. Stucco walls, terracotta rooflines, a Peter Harradine-designed golf course, and multiple dining formats from rooftop Latin-California to spa ritual make it the architecturally coherent resort in the Marassi development.
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo's luxury hotel market has long clustered along the Nile corridor, making the Waldorf Astoria's Heliopolis address a deliberate repositioning toward the city's historic northern quarter. Designed by London-based Adrian Barboza Design with art deco motifs and pharaonic references, the property sits within ten miles of the Grand Egyptian Museum and Khan El Khalili Bazaar.
Sidi Abd El Rahman, Egypt
Address Beach Resort Marassi sits within the Marassi master-planned community on Egypt's North Coast, roughly 129 kilometres west of Alexandria along the Mediterranean coastline. The resort's architecture draws from the region's coastal vernacular while running a contemporary line through its interiors. A Star Wine List recognition in 2026 signals a beverage program that places it above the generic resort tier.
Marsa Matrouh, Egypt
Positioned along Egypt's North Coast roughly 40 kilometres from Marsa Matrouh, Cleopatra Sidi Heneish faces the Mediterranean directly, a setting that earned it recognition on Star Wine List 2026. The property sits in a stretch of coastline that trades urban density for open water and sky, placing it in a distinct tier among Egyptian coastal venues.
Alexandria, Egypt
Positioned along the Cairo-Borg El-Arab Desert Road at the edge of the Maryout region, Hilton Alexandria King's Ranch holds three separate international awards across wedding, lifestyle, and conference categories, a competitive spread that reflects its scope rather than a single specialism. The property operates at the larger-format end of Alexandria's hospitality market, with facilities scaled for events as much as for leisure stays.
Luxor, Egypt
A Global Winner for Luxury Romantic Resort, Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa sits on the Karnak stretch of the Nile's east bank, placing guests within reach of the Karnak Temple complex. The property carries international chain infrastructure with a setting shaped by one of the ancient world's most densely layered archaeological zones, making it a functional base for serious temple itineraries alongside a dining and spa programme aimed at couples.
Cairo, Egypt
Occupying several apartment units inside Cairo's historic 1940s Immobilia building, this intimate residence-style property from Egypt Beyond operator delivers Art Deco interiors, locally sourced antiques, and in-house chef dinners from $325 per night. Where most downtown hotels insulate guests from the city, Immobilia puts you inside it, on Sherif Pasha Street, steps from the Beaux Arts architecture that defines central Cairo.
Cairo, Egypt
Carrying a 2025 MICHELIN Selected distinction, Kempinski Nile Hotel occupies a considered address on Ahmed Ragheb Street in Cairo's Garden City quarter, placing guests within reach of both the river and the capital's administrative core. The property represents the European-managed luxury tier in a city where international hotel brands compete closely for Nile-adjacent positioning.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Egypt.
Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
Axis is a bar entry for Alexandria, useful for readers mapping the city’s drinking scene beyond the familiar hotel-lounge circuit. With no public awards, pricing, or cocktail list attached, it is best treated as a context pick rather than a trophy address: compare it against Alexandria’s better-documented lounge and bar options before planning a night around it.
Cairo, Egypt
Bar Raa sits in Cairo’s Sheraton Al Matar district, a location that places it away from the hotel-heavy Nile circuit and closer to the city’s airport-side evening traffic.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Egypt.
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